PseudoPod 1014: Faith, Hope and Charity
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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‘Faith, Hope and Charity’ was first published in Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, April 1930. C/W strong violence, racist language Here’s a link to the Archive.org of the original text: https://archive.org/details/sim_cosmopolitan_1930-04_88_4/page/40/mode/2up Jim Kristofic novels: Coyote Stranger, The Sundown Killers 1892 Homestead Strike The…
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| 0:00.0 | Set your radios to spooky. |
| 0:02.3 | Then crank the dial all the way past that into full-on blood-soaked screaming horror. |
| 0:07.1 | Welcome to pseudopod. |
| 0:08.6 | Sudopod is made entirely by humans in service of an ancient being wider than time and older than hope. |
| 0:15.3 | She's nice. Says hello. |
| 0:22.5 | Sudopod, episode |
| 0:23.8 | 2014, January 30th, |
| 0:27.4 | 2026. |
| 0:28.9 | This week's story, |
| 0:30.3 | Faith, Hope, and Charity by |
| 0:32.5 | Irvin S. Cobb. |
| 0:34.1 | Narrated for you by Kevin M. Hayes, |
| 0:36.5 | hosted by Alastair Stewart, with audio by Chelsea Davis. |
| 0:40.7 | Welcome to Sudapod, the Weekly Horror Podcast. I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story |
| 0:45.7 | comes to us from Irvin S. Cobb. Cobb, born June 23, 1876, died March 11, 1944, was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York |
| 0:57.3 | and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories. He was born in Paducah, Kentucky, |
| 1:02.9 | where he began as a reporter for the Paducah Daily News at the age of 17. He became the nation's |
| 1:08.3 | youngest managing news editor two years later, and his career took him to media and artistic prominence in New York, where his Saturday evening post columns reached over 2 million readers. |
| 1:17.6 | He was such a well-known and well-loved figure that he hosted the 7th Academy Award ceremony. |
| 1:24.6 | Our narrator this week is Kevin M. Hayes. |
| 1:32.9 | Kevin began his involvement in science fiction, fantasy and horror at a very young age as an insatiable reader. |
| 1:34.7 | Eventually he grew from passive reader to active participant as writer and then he |
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